Love’s next chapter with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble

Hello and welcome to how I built this lab. This is our weekly look at companies trying to build world-changing technology, and it's also a place where we bring back previous guests from our Monday episode for an update. We first told the story of the dating app Bumble back in twenty seventeen, and if you haven't heard it, Go back and check it out. It's a pretty crazy story of how Whitney Wolf Hurd started one of the most successful dating apps out there. And since that time, Bumble has become a publicly traded company with a market cap of more than two and a half billion dollars. Recently, Whitney's been focusing a lot on artificial intelligence and how it will change everything about dating and love.

Which you'll find out about in a moment. It's both amazing and maybe a bit scary. Anyway, I first asked Whitney to take us back to the spring of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, when Whitney needed to figure out how Bumble would survive. You can imagine. The terror.

The existencial crisis. That I went through When Putting pen to paper, I realized oh my god, our entire business model. is based on people meeting.

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